Honolulu named one of the top cities for trick-or-treating

By Melissa Chang

Published: 2011.10.26 04:31 AM

If you’re planning to take the kids trick-or-treating next week, real estate siteZillow.comsays East Honolulu has the best neighborhoods for getting your fill of sweets. Your odds are good just living in Honolulu, as our fair city has been named the third best in the country for the annual Halloween haul.

Now in its third year of Halloween number crunching, Zillow determines the best trick-or-treating cities using four equally weighted data values: the company's Zillow Home Value Index, which aggregates the home-value estimates for each city area; walkability data by WalkScore.com; population density statistics, and local crime data from RelocationEssentials.com.

The graphic below shows how we stacked up against the top and bottom cities in each category.

Interestingly enough, Honolulu didn't even crack the top 20 last year. In 2009, only five cities were named, and we weren't one of them. So we must be doing something right to jump all the way to the number three spot ... perhaps it's all that crime fighting that the Hawaii Five-0 team is doing.

Within Honolulu proper, the neighborhoods deemed most likely to be productive and safe were:

About Our Writer

Rachel Ross Bradley is a Realtor-associate at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Hawai‘i Realty. Raised in Hawai‘i Kai, she previously worked in public relations and marketing where she assisted some of O‘ahu’s biggest community developers, educators and businesses. She loves connecting people and says that real estate is a form of matchmaking. She is mom to three teenagers and an avid runner, and notes that the hour each day of pavement-pounding is the only teen-angst-free peace and quiet she gets all day. rachelb@bhhshawaii.com